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 A Gentleman & Lady travelling from Tun-bridge towards that part of the Suſsex Coast which lies between Hastings & E.EastBourne, being induced by Busineſs to quit were, on quitting the highroad, & toil toilingattempt a very rough Lane up a very long steep hillwere through a rough Lane,1 overturned intoiling up its' long ascenthalf rock, half sand. – The accidenthappened just beyond the only Gentleman's House near the Lanea the House, whichtheir Driver on beingfirst required to take turn thatdirection, way, had conceived to be neceſsarily theirobject, & had with most unwilling Looksbeen constrained to paſs by . two minutesHe had grumbled, & shaken his Shoulders before grumbling so much indeed, & looking  and pitied & cut so black, & pitying & cutting his Horses sosharply much; that he might have been open to the suspicion of overturning them on pur::pose (especially as the Carriage was not his Masters notthe Gentleman's2 own) if the roadhad notindisputably & evidently become considerably much worse than before, as soon as thepremises of the said House were paſsed left behind — saying expreſsing, with a as Bad as it had  most intelligent  portentous and seeming been before – the Change seemed to say,countenance that beyond it no wheels but cartwheels could safely proceed. coul ever thought of proceeding.


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she was become that Lovelineſs was   complete.

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1.
Comma has been repurposed as caret. Back to context...
2.
RWC assumes an error here and that 'the Gentleman's' should have been deleted leaving 'was not his Masters own'. Back to context...
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